Lecture 3 - Canaanite Jerusalem and David's Jerusalem

The past two weeks have been hell. If UCLA was Jerusalem, I would consider South Campus to be Hinnom. One of the MCDB professors was a total dick to me at office hour because I had some questions so I dropped that class and enrolled in an MIMG one and had to catch up. Anyways, back to the Jerusalem.

We learned about settlements in Jerusalem before David in class. Previous lectures mentioned how Jerusalem was basically in the middle of nowhere, but we get some information on why the city might have came up. Water, agriculture, communication, and trade all helped with people settling there first. Then we delved into the history of Jerusalem's existence through archaeological texts. One of them, the Armarna letters was pretty interesting. It was basically the king of Jerusalem begging for money from Egyptian pharaohs written on cuniform tablets. I was more interested on what currency was back then, wouldn't Jerusalem be better off asking for protection rather than money at the time? 

Then we got into David's juicy story. The dude who killed the big dude with a slingshot. Interesting note, I went to Florence back in 2007 and saw the real David. We weren't supposed to take pictures because it might "degrade" the statute or something but I went behind some old dude and took a snapshot of the David.Various structures in the City of David were introduced such as the Millo, the house of Ahiel, and the house of Bullae.